New Orleans snowball – Life as Lauren

Another New Orleans vacation is in the books. The beauty of having a small bridal party (and a small group of girlfriends :P) is that it makes taking a trip for your bachelorette party a lot easier and New Orleans — my second home — was the obvious destination choice.

I have a ton of pictures — that still somehow only capture a small percentage of what we did — so I’ll try to keep the intro short and sweet. What can I say? We ate, we drank, we listened to live jazz, we hung out on Bourbon, we sweated (a lot!), we shopped, we toured the Garden District, we laughed, we danced and then we ate and drank some more 🙂

Airport Mimosas!

Obv I made a hashtag… that I mostly used…

We had breakfast at this hipster donut shop that totally belongs in Denver. This pistachio brown butter donut was amazing!

Me and my MOH! Please note the fun bachelorette sashes Jenn made for all of us.

Red Dress Run was a blast! Also my white dress and red veil got us tons of attention. Everyone loved it!

When your drink actually comes with a pair of sunglasses you know it’s going to be a good night.

Yes, it was necessary to order all three desserts.

It’s probably best that this is the only photo I took of our Saturday night out on Bourbon. And it just so happened that I took it from a balcony 🙂

This house was 28,000 square feet!!!!

Someone was ready for a Pimm’s Cup on the porch at The Columns.

Obligatory trip to Café du Monde for the NOLA newbies. Guess I should’ve warned Jenn that it was not going to be clean 🙂

And snowballs at Pandora’s to end the trip, naturally.

24 days until the wedding!!!!!

Happy Friday, can I bombard you with some questions?

Are you on Instagram? Have you seen this monthly photo-a-day thing people are doing? Are you dreading the day Instagram goes out of style and you have to go back to taking ugly unfiltered pictures?

No? Just me on that last one?

Back to the photo-a-day thing. Every month, the author behind the Fat Mum Slim blog puts out the monthly challenge list and social media outlets are flooded with interpretations of the theme of the day. I’d never done it before but came across the November list and thought it’d be fun.

Turns out it was. I realized the pictures basically showed a roundup of my my life and the little things that maybe don’t get mentioned on the blog (or maybe things that already get mentioned too much…) and I had fun looking at everyone else’s interpretation of the theme.

Since I only shared the pictures on Instagram, I thought I’d shove them all into one post here, for your voyeuristic pleasure. And now I promise to stop talking already.